Pesticide Action Network - food sovereigntyhttp://www.panna.org/taxonomy/term/60/0
enReal solutions this World Food Dayhttp://www.panna.org/blog/real-solutions-world-food-day
<a href="/blog/real-solutions-world-food-day"><img src="http://www.panna.org/sites/default/files/imagecache/teaser_thumbnail/user1/woman-farmer_0.jpg" alt="" title="" width="150" height="150" class="teaserthumbnail" align="left"/></a><a href="/blog/real-solutions-world-food-day"></a><p>Today is <a href="http://www.worldfooddayusa.org/">World Food Day</a> and around the world communities are taking a stand against hunger. But the solutions put forward differ dramatically depending on what one understands the &ldquo;food problem&rdquo; to be. For many, every day is World Food Day and presents both the necessity and opportunity to fight for farm and food justice; for them it is a matter of integrity and survival. Theirs (and ours) is a fight for <a href="http://usfoodsovereigntyalliance.org/what-is-food-sovereignty/">food sovereignty</a>, tackling the problems of hunger and our inequitable, imbalanced food system at their source.</p>
<p>For others, the Monsantos of the world, this day marks an opportunity to further push false, pesticide-dependent solutions to real problems. But <a href="http://www.panna.org/issues/food-agriculture/food-democracy">democratizing our food system</a> is the most powerful way I know to solve the <a href="http://www.panna.org/issues/food-agriculture/feeding-the-world">underlying problems</a> that World Food Day highlights &mdash; and people around the world are coming together to make it happen.</p>
<p><a href="http://www.panna.org/blog/real-solutions-world-food-day" target="_blank">read more</a></p>http://www.panna.org/blog/real-solutions-world-food-day#commentsFood & AgricultureAfricaagricultureagroecologyfood sovereigntyThu, 16 Oct 2014 22:12:36 +0000Marcia Ishii-Eiteman3073 at http://www.panna.org PAN hosts food democracy discussion - Join us!http://www.panna.org/blog/pan-hosts-food-democracy-discussion-join-us
<a href="/blog/pan-hosts-food-democracy-discussion-join-us"><img src="http://www.panna.org/sites/default/files/imagecache/teaser_thumbnail/user1/just-food.jpg" alt="" title="" width="150" height="150" class="teaserthumbnail" align="left"/></a><a href="/blog/pan-hosts-food-democracy-discussion-join-us"></a><p>
Do you ever wish it were easier to find fresh, healthy food for your family? Are you outraged by a food system that fills the pockets of giant corporations and denies fairness to farmers and farmworkers alike? Do you yearn to be part of a powerful, growing movement that&#39;s spreading across the U.S. (and in fact the world), and that&#39;s transforming our relationship to food &mdash; and each other &mdash; in the most fundamental ways imaginable?</p>
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If so, join us for a lively conversation about food justice, food sovereignty and food democracy &mdash; in this and future blog posts, or live and in person in San Francisco next Monday.</p>
<p><a href="http://www.panna.org/blog/pan-hosts-food-democracy-discussion-join-us" target="_blank">read more</a></p>http://www.panna.org/blog/pan-hosts-food-democracy-discussion-join-us#commentsFood & Agriculturefood democracyfood justicefood sovereigntyWed, 04 May 2011 14:48:40 +0000Marcia Ishii-Eiteman1782 at http://www.panna.orgGender, faith & farming — links worth makinghttp://www.panna.org/blog/gender-faith-farming-links-worth-making
<a href="/blog/gender-faith-farming-links-worth-making"><img src="http://www.panna.org/sites/default/files/imagecache/teaser_thumbnail/user1/global-peace.jpg" alt="" title="" width="150" height="150" class="teaserthumbnail" align="left"/></a><a href="/blog/gender-faith-farming-links-worth-making"></a><p>Cherry blossoms are in full bloom here in Washington D.C. where I&rsquo;ve spent the last few days participating in the <a href="http://advocacydays.org/">Ecumenical Advocacy Days&rsquo;</a> national conference for Global Peace with Justice. Along with some 700 participants, I heard inspiring stories of social justice work being carried out by communities of faith in the U.S. and around the world. Also on display were two under-appreciated facts that the U.S. food movement is slowly coming to appreciate: 1) the <a href="http://www.huffingtonpost.com/taj-james/movement-building-and-dee_b_765362.html">deep ties</a> of communities of faith are <em>critical </em>to social change-making; and 2) women farmers are and will remain the real roots of global agriculture.</p>
<p><a href="http://www.panna.org/blog/gender-faith-farming-links-worth-making" target="_blank">read more</a></p>http://www.panna.org/blog/gender-faith-farming-links-worth-making#commentsFood & Agricultureagroecologyclimatefaithfood sovereigntygenderwomenMon, 28 Mar 2011 18:09:46 +0000Marcia Ishii-Eiteman1732 at http://www.panna.orgFestival for Social Justicehttp://www.panna.org/blog/festival-social-justice
<a href="/blog/festival-social-justice"><img src="http://www.panna.org/sites/default/files/imagecache/teaser_thumbnail/user1/world-social-forum.jpg" alt="" title="" width="150" height="150" class="teaserthumbnail" align="left"/></a><a href="/blog/festival-social-justice"></a><p>
<a href="http://www.guardian.co.uk/global-development/poverty-matters/2011/feb/10/world-social-forum-2011-dakar-fast-crowded">This week in Dakar, Senegal</a>, 75,00 people from 132 countries have converged for the 11<sup>th</sup> <a href="http://fsm2011.org/">World Social Forum</a>&mdash;an inspiring and energizing week of workshops, seminars, panels and celebratory cultural events. The forum is being held at Cheikh Anta Diop University, where <a href="http://pan-afrique.org/index.php?lang=en">PAN Africa&#39;s</a> Dr. Abou Thiam teaches. This year, the theme of the World Social Forum, &ldquo;Another World is Possible,&rdquo; has been given new meaning to Africans, with the electrifying developments in Egypt and Tunisia uppermost in many participants&#39; minds.</p>
<p><a href="http://www.panna.org/blog/festival-social-justice" target="_blank">read more</a></p>http://www.panna.org/blog/festival-social-justice#commentsFood & Agricultureclimatefood sovereigntysenegalsocial movementsworld social forumThu, 10 Feb 2011 21:55:00 +0000Marcia Ishii-Eiteman1668 at http://www.panna.orgFarming to nourish the planet http://www.panna.org/blog/farming-nourish-planet
<a href="/blog/farming-nourish-planet"><img src="http://www.panna.org/sites/default/files/imagecache/teaser_thumbnail/user1/african-woman-farming.jpg" alt="" title="" width="150" height="150" class="teaserthumbnail" align="left"/></a><a href="/blog/farming-nourish-planet"></a><p>
Yesterday, January 12th, I participated in Worldwatch Institute&rsquo;s launch of its new report, <em><a href="http://www.worldwatch.org/sow11" rel="nofollow">State of the World 2011: Innovations to Nourish the Planet</a></em>. The report presents a dazzling array of creative down-to-earth solutions from African farmers that can help solve the scourge of global hunger and poverty. I had the great pleasure of co-authoring the concluding chapter of this report.</p>
<p><a href="http://www.panna.org/blog/farming-nourish-planet" target="_blank">read more</a></p>http://www.panna.org/blog/farming-nourish-planet#commentsFood & AgricultureAfricaagroecologyfood securityfood sovereigntyglobal hungerWed, 12 Jan 2011 23:40:00 +0000Marcia Ishii-Eiteman1625 at http://www.panna.org